Jose Alejandrino

Jose Candido Alejandrino y Magdangal (1 December 1870-1 June 1951) was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War and a Nacionalista Party senator from 1925 to 1928.

Biography
Jose Candido Alejandrino y Magdangal was born in Arayat, Pampanga, Philippines on 1 December 1870, and he studied alongside Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila. While studying in Spain, he agitated for equality for Spaniards and Filipinos in the colonial Philippines, and he operated from Hong Kong. In February 1897, he travelled to Japan to acquire arms for the rebels during the Philippine Revolution. He served as a Major-General during the Philippine-American War, during which he also served as an engineer. In 1925, Governor Leonard Wood made Alejandrino a Senator, and Alejandrino joined the conservative Nacionalista Party. He died in 1951.